In a move contrary to what much of the UK has been trying to do in restricting ticket touting, New York is going the other way and making it easier, in a hope to reduce the trade in second-hand tickets will become less dodgy.

Much of New York's anti-touting laegislation expire in June of this year. While venue owners have long since opposed propositions to remove the capping of ticket re-sale prices, they are now backing plans for a number  licensed organisations re-selling tickets at any price they want.

The plans, as reported on nme.com, are based on the assumption that prices would not increase by any great degree, due to the sudden and simultaneous increase of sellers creating a glut in supply (and therefore lower prices). The people behind that idea clearly never faced a situation such as trying to buy a ticket through a tout for when Propaghandi played the Mean Fiddler.